Re: [mv] listing of categories-help

[Ed LaFrance <edlafrance@printexusa.com>]

Chris Daniel wrote -
>
>
>Hello,
>I would like to create a list of categories for my minivend.
>
>I have items seperated into "stores".
>Each "store" has seperate categories.
>Categories contain multiple items.
>
>I have read and tried several different ways of doing this.
>None of them worked exactly right.
>sometimes I get all of the categories available.
>sometimes I get none.
>
>Could someone please help?
>I need code for calling page and code for new results page.
>I want to keep regular results page as is.
>The sf=category and se=video  etc...
>The category list needs to only list unique.
>While I'm at it has anyone come up with a way of returning number of
>items within a category?
>like this:
>
>Video:Travel (50 available)?
>
>Thanks.
>Chris
>

Chris -
You could create a categories-only results page and use it in conjuction
with the [on-change] tag to create a category list.  Put the tags to
display the category text within the [on-change][/on-change] pair, and make
the body of [search-list][/search-list] empty. You would display this page
via a one-click search which finds ALL records in the products database and
uses your categories page to display the results.  Each category name would
display exactly once, due to the [on-change] tag.

Each line item (category) on this page could itself be a one-click search
which results in the display of all items in that category (this would be
the "standard" results page, and a good example of how to do this exists in
the simple demo - take a look at the category links in the file "leftside").

Read up on 'THE SEARCH ENGINE" and it's subsections in the docs.

Good luck!

- Ed L.

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